Fly hook holder



Sept. 4, 1951 J, E, WAGGONER 2,566,388

FLY HOOK HOLDER Filed Dec. 5, 1945 I llventor @falaz Il Tlfjazzer WWW @Mm Patented Sept. 4, 1951 UNITED STATES sise @Fifiili FLE7 HOK HOLDER John E. Waggoner, South San Francisco, Calif.

Application December 5, 1945, Serial No. 632,847

(Cl. 43m-57.5)

4 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a ily hook holder and it is one object of the invention to provide a device of this character which is nat and of such dimensions that it may be readily carried in a pocket or placed in a tackle box if so desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a ily hook holder wherein the flies may be applied to the holder With the fly hooks alternately extending in opposite directions and thus allow a large number of hooks to be mounted in the holder.

Another object of this invention is the provision of spacedtransverse strips which serve both as hook engaging means and as seats for anchor blocks which in turn serve as leader engaging means. The edgesof these strips furthest from the transverse center of the holder, and hereinafter designatedY as outer edges, are recessed to provide a plurality of pockets for receiving the barbed ends of the hooks and Which serve additionally as seats for receiving an elastic band attached to the anchor blocks.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the members for holding the fly hooks are carried by a sheet having hook-engaging members at opposite sides thereof and mounted in a backing which serves as a protector for the hooks, and in addition provides a device with pockets in which leaders may be placed when not in use.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of this character which has the blocks carrying the leader-engaging members so mounted that tension or pull may be applied to the leaders and the leaders thus kept straight and also the f barbed ends of the hooks rmly held in engagement with the strips at ends of the device.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of the y hook holder.

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view through the sheet and strips removed from the binder and other portions of the holder and taken substantially on the plane of section line 2-2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken substantially on the plane of section line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4. is a perspective view of one of the blocks carrying a leader engaging member.

This improved ily hook holder has the appearance of a book and includes in its construction a sheet l across end portions of which strips 2 are secured by rivets 3. These strips 2 are in opposed relation to each other at opposite sides of :'.1

the sheet and located adjacent opposite ends thereof, and upon referring to Figures 2 and 3, it will be seen that each strip is provided along its outer side edge with a recess i so formed that it is divided into a number of pockets 5. Similar recesses 6 are formed along inner side edges of the strip. A binder or backing 'i is provided for the sheet I and this backing is formed from leather or other suitable material which may be readily folded without cracking. A shield 8 Vformed of material. not liable to tear easily is provided for the sheet I and its strips 2, and this sheet is folded so that the sheet I will. be disposed between its leaves and shields provided for both sides of the sheet I. There has also been provided a sheet of tubular material 8' having pockets Q open along their outer ends for reception of extra leaders. The sheet forming the pockets 9 is disposed hat against the sheet forming the shields il and the cover 'I is then applied and openings formed to receive rings l0 which hold the cover, the sheet having the pockets, the shield, and the sheet I in assembled relation to each other and allow the portion 'l' of the cover to be swung to an open positionfor removal of leaders from the pockets 9 and also allow the pockets 9 and the shields ii to be swung away from the sheet I to a raised or open position, allowing access to the sheet I. One of the portions 'l of the backing or cover is of greater width than the other and this wider portion carries a tongue II which will hold the cover closed when passed through a strip I2 carried by the narrow portion I of the cover.

Fly hooks which are placed in the carrier have the barbed ends of their hooks I3 engaged in the pockets 5 formed along outer side edges of the strips 2. The leaders It entend longitudinally of the sheet I and are engaged with anchoring members I5 carried by anchor blocks I5. The anchoring members I5 are formed from strands of resilient wire bent so that each anchoring member has a coil il' from which extend stems I8 and I9. The stems I of the anchoring members are embedded in the blocks it at their inner ends, that is, the ends closest to the transverse center oi the holder, and the blocks are provided with transversely extending openings 2 proximate the opposite or outer ends and longitudinally extending openings 2| extending through said outer ends so that an elastic strand 22 may be readily applied to the blocks and a knot 23 formed to hold the blocks in engagement with the elastic strands. The strands 22 are passed through passages 2li formed in the strips 2 and the outer end of each elastic strand is provided with a knot 25. It will thus be seen that the elasticity of the strands 22 will normally hold the blocks i6 in the position shown in Figure 2 with their outer end portions seated in the recesses 6 along the inner side edges of the strips 2.

When a ily hook is to be applied to the carrier, the eye at the rear end of the leader M of the hook I3 should rst be engaged with the anchorlng member I5 carried by block l5. To do this, the eye of the leader is passed over the stern I9 and then engaged With the coil Il of the anchoring member. By pulling on the -hook I3, the elastic 2.2 will be stretched and the barbed end of the hook engaged in the pocket 5 along the outer edge of the strip 2. This can be accomplished with one hand while holding the book 0r carrier open with the other hand. If the y hook should slip from a persons hand, the i'iy will not be lost from the fly book, as its leader remains in engagement with the anchoring member l5.

To remove the ily hook from the y carrier, it is merely necessary to pull hook I3 forwardly to release it from the pocket 5 of the strip 2 and then release its leader i4 from the anchoring member l5 by detaching the eye of the leader from the coil IE and slipping it forwardly above the stem I9. y

Each of the strips 2 has been shown formed with twelve of the pockets 5 and euch strip carries twelve of the blocks I6, and since the fly hooks are applied in opposite directions longitudinally of the holder with their hooks engaged with one strip 2 and their leaders engaged with the anchoring members carried by blocks of the other strips, twenty-four fly hooks may be applied to the side of the sheet shown in Figure 1. Since strips 2 are mounted at opposite sides of the sheet l, forty-eight ny hooks may be placed in the carrier with twenty-four at each side of the sheet l.

While it has been stated that the device is to carry ily hooks, it will be understood that any hook equipped with a leader may be placed in the carrier.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the invention relates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the invention after considering the description in connection with the drawings. Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in the shape, size and arrangement of details coming within the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actual practice, if desired.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A fly hook holder comprising a foldable backing, a sheet of strip material swingably mounted on said backing, a plurality of spaced parallel strips transversely carried by said sheet, recess means formed in said strips for frictionally retaining iish hooks, anchor means for detachably retaining leaders associated with the shhooks, and resilient means for securing said anchor means to said strips, said recess means including a plurality of recesses in the outer and inner side edges of said strips, and a plurality of passages transversely disposed in said strips interconnecting the outer and the inner recesses.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said anchor means includes a plurality of blocks abutting said inner recesses and having resilient coils secured to the inner ends thereof for removably retaining leaders.

3. The combination of claim 2 wherein said resilient means includes elastic bands extending through said passages and secured at their extremities to said strips and to the outer ends of said anchor blocks.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein said anchor blocks include transverse bores proximate the outer ends thereof and longitudinal bores extending through the outer ends thereof, and said elastic bands are knotted at their extremities and retained in said outer recesses and said longitudinal bores.

JOHN E. WAGGONER.

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